Netizen 24 NGA: Late-night on Trump's IQ boast: 'I'm not sure he could finish the maze on a kids' menu'

Late-night on Trump's IQ boast: 'I'm not sure he could finish the maze on a kids' menu'

Stephen Colbert on Donald Trump: âHis report card is definitely going to say has problems working and playing well with others.â Photograph: CBS Late-night TV roundup Late-night on Trump's IQ boast: 'I'm not sure he could finish the maze on a kids' menu'

Comics including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Trump for his feuds with Bob Corker and Rex Tillerson, who he challenged to an IQ test

Late-night hosts on Tu esday addressed Donald Trumpâs feud with his secretary of state Rex Tillerson, which began weeks ago after Trump undermined Tillersonâs diplomatic effort to deter the North Korean nuclear threat.

âIt has been a rough start to the school year for Donald Trump,â Stephen Colbert began. âHis report card is definitely going to say has problems working and playing well with others. What can we do? The Oval office doesnât have any corners. You canât put him in a time out.

âIt is open warfare between Donald Trump and the Republicans. It all started in an attempt to avoid open warfare with North Korea. You see, secretary of state and disappointed-father-tribute-head Rex Tillerson was in the middle of tense negotiations about North Korea and their nuclear program when Donald Trump tweeted that Tillerson was âwasting his time trying to ne gotiate with Little Rocket Manâ.â

Colbert quipped: âEverybody knows there is no better way to defuse a tense nuclear standoff than with insult humor. Who can forget during the Cuban missile crisis when Kennedy tweeted: âCueball @Khrushchev and Lilâ Beardy donât have the balls. I double-dog dare you to push the button.â

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Colbert then detailed Trumpâs interview with Forbes magazine, in which he claimed not to be undermining Tillerson but rather âstrengthening authorityâ.

âTo thank him for all that strengthening of authority, Tillerson called him a fucking moron, allegedly,â Colbert explained. âBut this morning he had an answer for that too.â

Trump told Forbes: âIf he did that, I guess weâll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tel l you whoâs going to win.â

âMe too! We have the results right here,â Colbert joked. âTillerson scored a 120. Itâs above average, not genius, but still pretty good. And we have Donald Trumpâs results right here. Itâs a drawing of a big truck that says MAGA.â

Jimmy Kimmel also weighed in on the Trump-Tillerson scuffle.

âPresident Trump continues to feud publicly with his own secretary of state,â Kimmel began. âLast week we learned that Rex Tillerson referred to Trump as a âfucking moronâ behind his back. Trump tweeted that the story was false, but Tillerson didnât deny it, and clearly this is still eating at the president because this morning, in a new interview with Forbes magazine, they asked him about it.â

Kimmel then detailed Trumpâs proposal that he and his secretary of state compare IQ tests.

âAt this point Iâm not sure Donald Trump could finish the maze on the back of a Dennyâs kidsâ menu,â Kimmel qu ipped. âI would pay $100 to watch Rex Tillerson and Donald Trump take IQ tests against each other. And I guarantee you the next day Kellyanne Conway would be on TV explaining that IQ tests are like golf, the lower the number the better the score.â

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Kimmel then added that Tillerson is not Trumpâs only Republican foe, as the president and Senator Bob Corker have been exchanging heated remarks for almost a week now. On Tuesday, Trump tweeted in response to Corkerâs interview with the New York Times: âThe Failing New York Times set Liddleâ Bob Corker up by recording his conversation. Was made to sound a fool, and thatâs what I am dealing with!â

F inally, Seth Meyers of NBC briefly recapped some of the dayâs news, including the continued allegations about Harvey Weinstein and sexual harassment and Trumpâs public feud with Corker.

âThe New Yorker today released audio of fired Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein begging a model to come into his hotel room and watch him shower,â Meyers began. âAnd by the looks of him, Iâm guessing that shower never happened. I mean, the rest of us need one.â

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âWhite House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders today said that President Trumpâs comments that he had a higher IQ than Rex Tillerson was a joke and told reporters they should get a sense of humor,â he continued.

âThey should get a sense of humor? Youâre the one who always looks like she just found a joint in her sonâs Bible. A CNN anchor said yesterday that Senator Bob Corkerâs recent criticisms of President Trump was his way of planting seeds to call into question Trumpâs fitness for office.